One could extend the point further. Even if our largesse did buy us influence, that doesn?t mean we?re influencing the right people. The group that starts or wins a revolution is not necessarily the group that takes power in the aftermath. At the start of the Russian Revolution in 1917, few thought that Lenin?s Bolsheviks?a small, marginal party compared with the Mensheviks and the Socialist Revolutionaries?would rise to the top. In the wake of last year?s Arab Uprising (a better term, in retrospect, than Arab Spring), the Muslim Brotherhood won Egypt?s first free election, even though the party had little presence in the first days of the Tahrir Square protests.
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